✅ For travel companies
The Vamoos Storyboard is a brilliant feature that lets you create visually stunning and interactive itineraries for your clients. The paper itinerary is a thing of the past!
In this article:
Introduction to the Storyboard
Adding documents to the Storyboard
Hiding dates on the Storyboard
Adding flights directly to the Storyboard
Adding a Vamoos Connect property to the Storyboard
Introduction to the Storyboard
- The Vamoos Storyboard allows you to create a visual and interactive day-by-day itinerary
- Upload as much or as little information as you'd like, for your travellers to easily view throughout their holiday
- For each day (or section) add a beautiful image and link a location so they can see where they need to be on each day
- Add day-specific documents that are relevant to what your travellers are doing that day
How to view the Storyboard
The storyboard content can be displayed in two ways in the app:
1. Summary View - This presents the content in an image-led list. It will provide a visual overview of the itinerary for the user showing just day titles & numbers (left screenshot)
2. Detailed View - This provides a detailed view of a specific day of the itinerary. The user can see full information relating to that day (right screenshot)
- Select which view you would like to show on the app from the dropdown menu on the Storyboard section of a trip
TOP TIP: change your account default for this in Settings in the top menu bar and then select Default storyboard settings
How to use the Storyboard
- To start creating your storyboard, go to your Vamoos List, select or create a trip and go to Storyboard in the menu down the left-hand side
- Press the Add button to add a blank storyboard frame and start filling in your information
- Day Number - type a number in here to link this frame to a day of the trip. You can have more than one frame per day
- Title - give your day a title
- Location - you can link each Storyboard day to a location (you add these in the previous section Locations). This will also pull through any PDFs/URLs attached to the location. By default, this document/link will appear under an icon named Accommodation. You can change this in the Menu & Labels section
- Additional Information - add your full description of what that day or section of the trip will include. You can also use the formatting tool bar to hyperlink and highlight key information.
- Background Image - press Add Image to upload your image. This image will be displayed on both the Summary and Details view of the Storyboard. Images can be png, jpeg or jpg, and our size recommendation is 2048 x 2048 px
TOP TIP: Read our advice for choosing great storyboard imagery here
Adding documents to the Storyboard
- You can also add day-specific documents or links to storyboard frames
- These can be anything you would like that is relevant to what your travellers are doing on that day (e.g E-tickets, Background Reading, Spotify Playlists and Booking Confirmations
- To add a document to a Storyboard day, use the + Add button
- You can choose an Icon and give it a Title
- To attach a PDF or URL link, press the Attach / Link button
Reordering Storyboard days
- If the order of the itinerary changes around, you can really easily drag and drop to reorder the storyboard frames
- Click the Reorder button on the floating toolbar
- Click the horizontal lines to drag and drop the frames around to change the order of days, or order of multiple frames within a day
Hiding dates on the Storyboard
- You can opt to not show day numbers and dates using the Hide Dates button on the floating toolbar
- This could be used for Resorts or Villas where you can use the Storyboard to show the range of facilities or activities in the area rather than a day-by-day itinerary
The Storyboard Library
- The Storyboard Library allows you to save a storyboard frame to your Vamoos Library so you can re-use it on another trip to save time
- Once you have created a storyboard frame, to save it to the library press the Add to Library button
- Give your saved frame a name and select a folder to save it in, then press Create
- To add this saved storyboard frame to a new trip. Open up your new trip and go to Storyboard in the left-hand side menu
- Press the Add the Storyboard button in the toolbar
- You can then select the storyboard frame from the library and it will be added to the trip
- To add multiple Storyboard days to your trip, select the days you wish to add. These will be added in the order that you have selected them
Adding flights directly to the Storyboard
- You can add Flights directly to the Storyboard which creates a frame for each flight
- If you add them directly to the Storyboard they will also be displayed in the Flights section
- To add a flight directly to the Storyboard, select the Add to Storyboard button and select Flights
- Here you can search the flight using the airline code, flight number & date and press Select
- This will add a frame to the storyboard with an image of the flight map & the key information. You can edit this frame and add more information if required
Adding a Vamoos Connect property to the Storyboard
- You have the option to directly add a Vamoos Connect property and it's content to a storyboard frame. Read more about Vamoos Connect here
- To add a Vamoos Connect Stay to the Storyboard, select the Add to Storyboard button
- Select Stay and either use the Search Bar to search for a Vamoos property you have previously used, or filter by country to browse
- Click on the property on the map (shown by orange V icon) and press the Add Stay button
- This will create a new storyboard frame with the image & description of the stay that are stored on our database
FAQs
- Q: Can I update a saved storyboard library day?
A: Yes you can! Save your updated storyboard day with the same name of the existing record and it will override & update it!
- Q: Can I add more than one frame under the same day?
A: Yes you can have multiple frames for each day, just enter the relevant day number.
- Q: Can I have dates showing for most of the days, but remove the date from some of them?
A: You can using our hack. Put a # in front of the text on the 'Day Title' section of the Storyboard frame. This will 'hide' the date for that day.
If you have any further questions or need help with this, you can contact us at support@vamoos.com.